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Prevalence estimates of genital Chlamydia trachomatis infection in Belgium: results from two cross-sectional studies.

The population-wide weighted estimated prevalence was 1.54% (95% CI 0.78-3) in CT1 and 1.76% (95% CI 0.63-4) in CT2. We observed no statistically significant difference between men and women or age ...

Long-Term Pollen Monitoring in the Benelux: Evaluation of Allergenic Pollen Levels and Temporal Variations of Pollen Seasons

long-term temporal trends at supranational scale may provide more comprehensive insight into these phenomena. To this end, the Spearman correlation was used to statistically compare the temporal trends in ...

Frequency of Participation in External Quality Assessment Programs Focused on Rare Diseases: Belgian Guidelines for Human Genetics Centers.

statistical model has been proposed to help the Centers of Human Genetics to determine the theoretical number of tests that should be annually performed to achieve a certain threshold of performance (eg, ...

Determinants of adherence to COVID-19 measures among the Belgian population: an application of the protection motivation theory.

received the lowest scores. There was a statistically significant relationship between response efficacy and self-efficacy on the one hand and (past and future) adherence on the other hand, in a multivariate ...

Validation of the Dutch-Flemish translated ABCD questionnaire to measure cardiovascular diseases knowledge and risk perception among adults

fit statistics were evaluated. Furthermore, exploratory and confirmatory factorial validity, and internal consistency measures were explored. Descriptive statistics showed that both the knowledge and ...

Incidence of SARS-CoV-2 in people with cystic fibrosis in Europe between February and June 2020.

rates of intensive care, although not statistically significant. Most pwCF recovered (96.2%), however 5 died, of whom 3 were lung transplant recipients. The case fatality rate for pwCF (3.85%, 95% CI: ...

Assessing polypharmacy in the older population: Comparison of a self‐reported and prescription based method

polypharmacy (use or prescription ≥5 medicines) and excessive polypharmacy (≥10 medicines) between both sources was assessed with kappa statistics. Multinomial logistic regression was used to study determinants ...

Recommendations to plan a national burden of disease study

profiles with national health statistics. Conclusions These recommendations as minimum requirements would facilitate efforts by those European countries who intend to perform national BoD studies. Health ...

Conducting national burden of disease studies in small countries in Europe– a feasible challenge?

institutes of public health, statistical offices and other bodies. Hence, DALY s can be estimated at a national level through the combination of the YLL and YLD  information. On the other hand, small countries ...

The Cost of Diets According to Nutritional Quality and Sociodemographic Characteristics: A Population-Based Assessment in Belgium

ConsumerScan Panel food price data. Statistical analyses performed: Associations were estimated using linear regressions. Results: The mean daily diet cost was US $6.51 (standard error of mean [SEM] US $0.08; ...

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